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Workx79 refers to Rihanna’s hit song Work, in which she says “work” 79 times. The exhibition is concerned with digital tools and processes that have become ubiquitous today. The exhibition features work by poet Michele Leggot, as a digitally made vinyl cut-out (designed by Yonel Watene), Christchurch-born, Dunedin-based artist Joel Rickerby, Anthony Low and Yonel Watene.

SAVOIE de LACY is an alternative gallery, studio space and community initiative created by Yonel Watene in March 2016. The gallery is tasked with finding alternative formats to present art outside of traditional norms. Throughout the years, the storefront building located at 285 Ravensbourne Road has functioned as a dairy, butchery and second-hand store. Watene and his partner Roberta Francis live behind SdL.

Beginning in the afternoon, The Manor will present a selection of experimental, electroacoustic, and close listening sound events. As the sun sets, the space will transform and “Club Six” will emerge. The sound environment will shift to a space where movement is encouraged. Engaging within our home, artists will present a variety of projects with an emphasis on collaboration through, sound, image, material, and process.

3.30pm-6pm

A Reverent Circuit (ARC)
The improvising performer is aware of an observer. The observer can leave, move, or wait. The performer is on a stage, a designated domain, they cannot hear or see what the observer receives. They interpret and collaborate, with the space, audience, and other performers. ARC is a constructed environment, two tiers will separate the performers and observers, they are physically removed from each other. The performer defines the sonic space, is focused and collaborative. The observer is present and enabled, within this space, to define their own awareness, to be comfortable to move, and position themselves according to subjective preference. An emphasis of attention should fluctuate and flow between these domains, and ultimately not be a dominion of either. A Reverent Circuit will be the opening piece for The Manor’s Storm Channels event.

Karl Leisky and Leben Young
A/V artist Leben Young and musician Karl Leisky, will collaborate for Storm Channels on an installation based performance. Generating a live soundtrack through a variety of non-traditional “sound objects” accompanying a video presentation, they will form a dialogue between the objects, their photographic representation and acoustic potential.

Samuel Longmore
Sam Longmore is an artist and electronic musician residing in Auckland. His work deals with sound in relation to architecture, and geographic theories of space, place and body. For Storm Channels, Sam will present a set of electronically edited and arranged field recordings made primarily in Dunedin in the winter of 2012.

Waterfalls
Waterfalls is the pop project of Wellington musician Amber Johnson. The music of Waterfalls equally values the comfort of beauty, melody and the exhilaration of unsettling timbres. Densely layered flutes, processed vocals, analog synthesizers and mesmerizing rhythms are enlisted for her explorations of genre hybridity and emotional intimacy. She is excited to bringing her sound to The Manor and will be presenting a new collaboration with Lady Lazer Light.

Le Tre Arterie
Comprising three singles from forthcoming album ‘Dark Artery’ by Embedded Figures, Le Tre Arterie is an audiovisual collaboration between Embedded Figures and Ducklingmonster. Each track corresponds to a video, produced by Ducklingmonster. The videos are loosely based on Dario Argento’s Le Tre Madri trilogy, with each video having a central anonymous female figure possessing a different architectural setting. The video content mixes footage of Embedded Figures performing live with footage sourced from a public archive of mid-century educational and industrial film. In the live iteration of Le Tre Arterie, Embedded Figures and Ducklingmonster will open up the heart of Club Six at The Manor with an expanded cinema projection and a bass-heavy sonic collaboration of Embedded Figures compositions.

Sans Def
Presenting a 4ch mix of contemporary techno rhythms & textures. Sans Def is the latest dj moniker of Simon Kong. From the original school of rave, his dj practice spans 20yrs of underground music and dance culture.

Back on Track
Sibling duo Hannah and Fin Wall have been performing together since 2014. Motivated to get Dunedin’s dance scene “Back on Track” they have been playing carefully selected records across the city on a semi-regular basis since forming. With an attention to detail and an appreciation for the art of Djing, they deliver a techno sound that is unique and hard hitting. Back on Track represent part of an underground techno revival currently happening across Aotearoa “BOT SQUAD- watch your back”.

Danny Creature
Danny Brady is a musician in bands Elan Vital and Death and the Maiden. Danny Creature will deliver a mix of acid-infused dance tracks to Club Six.

Have you been itching to explore the hidden wonders of the electromagnetic field but are concerned with the health risks of magnet implants? Now you can forgo the surgery and weave yourself into the web of wiggling charge by building the Magnetti – a pocket magnetic field receiver. The Magnetti designed by Brett Ryan consists of a coil of wire to pick up the fields, a receiver amplifier to boost the little wiggles, and a headphone amplifier so you can get out and explore.

This workshop covered:
– Learning how to use and care for a soldering iron
– An introduction to common components used in all electronic devices.
– Building your very own Magnetti to sonify the blips n whistles, hums n crackles, skarks n whoops, and pekwarks hiding in the aura of your electronic devices.
– Learn about and experiencing magnetic fields by experiencing them.

Brett Ryan is an electronic engineer who designs assisted breathing machines for hospitals by day and experiments with electronic sounds by night. He is always looking to make improvements to the world around him and as such broken or malfunctioning objects are a point of fascination and inspiration. For the past 3 years he has been designing workshops with the aim of giving people a taste of electronics to build confidence and inspire people to delve deeper.

The Anteroom is based in an ex-Masonic Lodge in Koputai Port Chalmers. As a non profit art project space we are motivated by collaboration, process and being an active part of the community.

Surveillance Cradle Tests is a series of reflective mylar helium sculpture experimentations based on works from Sklenars’ 2017 Red Gate Gallery residency in Beijing. Surveillance Cradle Tests appears throughout Storm Channels streaming live to stormchannels.co.nz

Erica Sklenars is a Dunedin-based artist who works predominantly in the mediums of performance and video, creating both solo performative video art, and collaborative audio-visual performance installation.

From Kingdom to Crown seeks to map the transient channels that flow between history and the present, presence and absence, resonance and emanation, addressing the specific architectural spaces of the gallery as constituent in the cultural production of arts practice.

Drawing on Hermetic metaphysical systems as the mapping of a generative processes, From Kingdom to Crown begins with a installation work and sound performance by None gallery alumni Brendan Jon Philip. Audio from the performance will be processed through an enormous spring reverb built into None’s disused elevator shaft by Danny Brady and Nikolai Sim. Sound will then be re-recorded and looped through the reverberation effect and played back into the gallery until the signal takes on a resonant tone reflective of the space itself.

Feeding into From Kingdom to Crown, current None Resident Erica Sklenars’ Surveillance Cradle Tests will display live streams of the elevator shaft reverb within the exhibition space as well as acting as surveillance satellites at various Storm Channels events feeding data to be absorbed into the perpetual resonance of the None elevator shelf. Surveillance Cradle Tests is a series of reflective mylar helium sculpture experimentations based on works from Sklenars’ 2017 Red Gate Gallery residency in Beijing.

None Gallery is an artist residence, gallery and studio space located near the heart of Ōtepoti Dunedin in Aotearoa New Zealand’s weathered South. We are a resident-run and self-funded collective that combines both art project space and multiple studio rooms.

Brendan Jon Philip is an artist, writer, and musician based in Dunedin. Drawing these distinct practices into a syncretic whole, he has exhibited, published and performed throughout New Zealand. Nikolai Sim is a musician, sound and audio visual installation artist. Danny Brady is a musician, producer and sound engineer. Originally from Wellington, Danny has been residing in Dunedin for the last 5 years, a lot of that time has been spent at None.

Erica Sklenars is a New Zealand artist who works predominantly in the mediums of performance and video, creating both solo performative video art, and collaborative audio-visual performance installation. Sklenars currently works from her studio at None, Dunedin.

SPACE-BETWEEN is an immersive exhibition by Chaong Wen Ting at DIRT, as part of the Storm Channels event series. This audio visual artwork documents an installation within an abandoned sake factory in Nakanojo, created by Ting in July 2017.

DIRT substitute space in New Zealand to represent Ting’s Installation idea about reactions between moving image and water to communicate the invisible tension of surface and energy; Ting’s practise seeks to question the relationship to and the ownership of everyday environments.

As SPACE-BETWEEN manifests within Storm Channels, Ting hopes to begin a conversation between indigenous communities of Ōtepoti and highland communities from Taiwan.

Chaong Wen Ting (TING) is a Taiwanese artist who has exhibited extensively throughout Asia and Europe, and most recently has been selected to participate in the Nakanojo Biennale in Japan. Ting Chaong-Wen is an installation artist and visual designer. Ting’s works are often inspired by his own experiences and regularly include ready-made objects, which through the context of a particular exhibition become part of a historical narrative. Thus the artist deconstructs, interprets, and reinterprets our shared history in surprising and innovate ways. He examines dominant values and historical conflicts such as colonialism, migration, and cultural collective memory and their cross-border existence.

DIRT is an online art and project space. DIRT navigates the boundary between digital and physical space, identifying new environments to showcase art and related projects. DIRT aims to disrupt and challenge conventional representational landscapes by supporting emerging experimental artists. Creative Director Kelly O’Shea curates and drives DIRT; while at the same time maintaining a contemporary jewellery and installation practice of her own.

Storm Channels was a series of events held throughout six Dunedin Artist-Run Initiatives (ARIs) from the 28 – 30th of July, 2017. Storm Channels was co-organised in partnership between The Aotearoa Digital Arts Network and Koputai Port Chalmers ARI The Anteroom. Storm Channels was an event in celebration of the dedicated community and history of independent practitioners working in self-run spaces.

Over three days, Storm Channels was realised in seven projects from Savoie de LACY, None, DIRT, XXX/YYY, The Anteroom and The Manor. Each ARI brings their own network of national and international artists, curators and writers that together form a diverse, fluid and gritty base for critical discussion. Each project brings an autonomous inquiry that ranges from electroacoustic & close listening sessions to a club night. A DIY electronics workshop, an optimistic installation and a sound performance that marks the beginning of a reverberant architectural loop. A loop that also extends to a surveillance intervention. Questions continue to be asked through an exhibition addressing concepts of work alongside contemporary poetry and another that sets to challenge notions of ownership.

In a culture of digital and online ubiquity, Storm Channels responds by rethinking the importance of small-scale physical spaces in a globalised world, to support the collective of local ARIs where a common thread is resource-sharing and collaboration. Storm Channels recognises the significant history of ARIs in Dunedin, that come and go, yet leave an impact to support future generations of artists in the city and abroad.

Members of the public are invited to the entire three-day event, free of charge, spanning six ARIs, showcasing the enriched and engaged community operating, on their own terms, independent of an agenda besides a sense of urgency for art to happen.

Storm Channels was supported by Creative New Zealand, The Dunedin City Council and New New New.

ADA is a network researching the expanded field around media, new media, electronic and digital art. The ADA Network enables communication between artists, curators, teachers, critics, theorists, writers and the interested public. ADA develops public understanding of digital art through its online forum, through publications and exhibitions, and by touring speakers, holding master classes and symposia.

ADA is a national organisation advancing education, enabling discussion, collaboration and mentoring, passing on learning and expertise. ADA contributes towards the development of digital art, in all its manifestations, across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Past Work

In 2010 ADA hosted the masterclass tour of Professor Douglas Kahn to Auckland, Christchurch, Whanganui. ADA was a key partner for Electrosmog: Festival of Sustainable Immobility, an international networked conference and festival initiated by De Baile in Amsterdam. 2010 also marked the seventh ADA symposium, Energetics and Informatics. Over the past decade ADA symposia have maintained a reputation for inspired presentations by leading and emergent New Zealand artists alongside renowned international artists and critics. In 2008 ADA published The ADA Reader, a book that remains the only comprehensive text on media arts and their histories in New Zealand. This text has given an international depth and recognition to New Zealand’s media arts practice. The ADA network continues to expand understanding of and exposure to digital and media arts (in all their variety) in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The Aotearoa Digital Arts List is an e-mail based discussion list for artists, curators, critics and educators focused on the intersection between art and technology in New Zealand and further afield. To subscribe or manage your existing membership, visit http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/ada_list

Equipment Pool

The ADA Equipment Pool is a technology resource made available for artists and galleries in New Zealand. This resource is dedicated to supporting artists and exhibitors working with video and new media technology. ADA intends to make this equipment available to use for artists and galleries at cost as a service to the art community.

The equipment is geographically distributed in Whangarei, Wellington, Nelson and Dunedin. Generally speaking, we don’t ship the equipment between centres, but encourage artists to take advantage of what is available in the city nearest them.

Preference will be given to ADA List members. Contact admin(at)ada(dot)net(dot)nz for full details, terms and conditions.

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Wed, 23 Mar 2016 20:31:01 +0000http://www.ada.net.nz/?p=6453Simplification is a necessary part of our creative practice. It allows us to cut down what isn’t needed and focus on the core ideas of the project. Remnants is based on this process. Throughout the development of Remnants, we have found that simplifying our approach to creating ideas has allowed us to progress the formation of our project effectively.

While this project was based heavily on the process, the outcome is also an artistic representation of simplification. The dome structure built from bamboo and covered with synthetic cotton wool houses a network of computers that send signals to one another when the cord is pulled. This is visualised through the lengths of LED lights connecting the nodes to one another.

This is what we imagine a brain might look like if it were simplified. We can clearly see the communication visualised by the different neurons sending pulses through the synapses.